Alan Fagan joined ESPN as Group Director, Advertising and Sponsorship in 2010. In that role, Alan is responsible for the day-to-day management and strategic development of ESPN’s advertising and sponsorship business across ESPN’s platforms in the EMEA region, as well as driving international sales from Europe-based clients for all of ESPN products, worldwide.

Alan has led the launch of numerous new platforms and services over the past few years, including the launch of the UK’s largest video sports app, and fastest growing multi-sport site.

Alan joined ESPN from BBC Worldwide, where he served as the Sales Director for Western Europe. During that time Alan was part of the team that led the commercialization of bbc.com.

Prior to BBC Worldwide, Fagan worked at CNN International as Director of UK Sales.
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Charles’ career includes leadership roles across advertising, publishing and digital start-ups, in addition to over a decade at Saatchi & Saatchi where he was responsible for global technology clients as well as launching Saatchi Interactive, one of the UK’s first digital agencies.

Nick is a founding partner and CEO of POKE; a creative practice focused on delivering original and exceptional interactive communications and services. Clients include EE, UBS, P&G;, Here East Google, Ted Baker, Mulberry, HBO and BBC.

In 2010, Nick and the POKE partners launched The Lovie Awards and Internet Week Europe - a week-long festival celebrating the wonderful
and inspiring things connected by the web's many tentacles. He continues to Co-Chair and direct the festival.

Nick is also founder of charitable initiative The 100 Project, is Board member for film streaming business Mubi,advises Space Studios, England's largest provider of studios for visual artists, and is a non-exec director for National Citizen Service.

In 2015, he was awarded with a Lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the industry.

Paul Feldwick was head of account planning at Boase Massimi Pollitt and a Worldwide Brand Planning Director for DDB. He has also chaired the APG and the AQR, and was the third convenor of judges for the IPA Effectiveness Awards. Since leaving DDB, he has worked as a consultant in the fields of strategy, brands, and organisational change, but retains a strong fascination for advertising itself. He is well known as an author and speaker, and his new book, The Anatomy of Humbug: How to Think Differently About Advertising, was published in February 2015. He has Master’s degrees from the University of Bath School of Management, and from Ashridge Business School.

Having founded and built a number of successful businesses in the last 20 years including Techlightenment - the leader in social insight and advertising (sold to Experian plc in 2011) - Gi now concentrates on investing and supporting ambitious UK startups and scaleups including Citymapper, YPlan, Streetlife, TechWillSaveUs, Playmob and Big Health as well as helping a number of FTSE organisations on digital strategy and transformation. Gi has a particular passion for unlocking digital talent from a diverse population and is on the board of several related businesses and organisations.

In fewer than five years, Angie has transformed Bird & Bird's digital presence and the firm is now independently recognised as one of the world's top five law firms for digital intelligence. Her experience includes launching an award-winning, fully-responsive, 50,000 page website in ten languages; creating over a dozen internal and external mobile apps; delivering numerous stand-alone blogs and independent WordPress websites; creating a video library and YouTube channel and developing Bird & Bird's highly regarded social media presence. In addition, she manages the development of the firm's wider visual identity, including sophisticated templates to enable users across the firm to create brand-compliant documents.

As well as winning numerous awards for her firm, Angie was named as a finalist in the 'Rising Star of the Year' at the Masters of Marketing Awards, while client perceptions of the firm's marketing materials have risen from 'average' to over 10% ahead of the market.

I am a t-shaped entrepreneur who enjoys building creative businesses and highly effective teams. As well as helping grow Profero from a team of 22 people to a global business of over 300 people, I was instrumental in helping Cheil become the fastest growing agency in London in 2013 as well as one of the most creative (our We are David Bailey campaign was the second most awarded piece of work from a UK agency in 2013) and innovative. I am currently running my own consultancy called Mutant.

I continue to drive forward Creative Social, a collective of the world's top Creative Directors and business owners, born of the digital era, which I co-founded with Mark Chalmers in 2004.

David leads monetisation of digital products at Sky. Sky’s ‘Advanced Advertising’ strategy, of which AdSmart is also a part, is focused on four key areas: Addressability, cross-platform, programmatic and the successful monetisation of new audience behaviours or consumption patterns. In the last year David and the team successfully launched Sky AdVance, allowing audience
targeting to extend from TV to digital through a 3 million household viewing panel and an extension of the ad stack to include a DSP. 2015 also saw the launch of several new VOD products, not least the ability to advertise around catch-up on the set-top box,
now Sky’s fastest growing VOD revenue stream. Next up for Sky, the challenge of how to deliver broadcast VOD inventory programmatically, at scale, while being regulatory and data compliant. Before joining Sky, David spent five years at the Guardian where, as part of the commercial leadership team, he played a central role in the move to a ‘digital first’ strategy.

After a career in top flight television and movies that spans four decades, Dexter has seamlessly moved behind the camera, with terrific results, first directing gritty comedy, Wild Bill, then moving on to the musical, Sunshine On Leith, and more recently, the wonderful Eddie The Eagle, which is in cinemas now. His big screen acting highlights include Guy Ritchie’s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Matthew Vaughn’s Stardust, and Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy. His small screen work includes Press Gang, Hotel Babylon and HBO’s Band Of Brothers.

Stuart Flint is responsible for driving overall operations and strategic direction of the business. In the UK this includes AOL’s award-winning editorial brands The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget as well as the advertiser sales and publisher platforms businesses.

As part of his role Stuart oversees the running of the AOL Platforms division, which enables the world's top advertisers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile and TV through premium video experiences, programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns. Stuart is also responsible for driving the management and sales responsibility for all of Microsoft's display, mobile and video advertising inventory in the UK following the recent global partnership announcement.

Having previously worked at Yahoo! UK, Virgin Media, Hearst Digital and as Sales Director at Microsoft Advertising UK, Stuart moved into AOL UK as part of the partnership between the two companies to become Commercial Director.

Tracey is the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at The Future Laboratory.

She specialises in Foresight and Futures consultancy guiding brands and businesses towards their best possible futures, helping them with decisions today that will lead to growth tomorrow.

Tracey worked in advertising for over 20 years, both in agencies and as a client. Her work in telecoms, technology, retail and media has helped to shape the future strategies of brands such as T-Mobile, BT, O2, easyJet and John Lewis. While Chief Strategy Officer at JWT, she established planning foresight as a new discipline across the agency client base.

Tracey left advertising to retrain as a professional Futurist at the University of Houston and set up her own successful futures consultancy, before moving to The Future Laboratory as CSO. She is Marketing magazine’s resident futures columnist and writes and speaks extensively on the need for long-term strategies for business. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Future Society.

With over 18 years in the advertising business, Rachel has worked across most sectors; from Automotive and Pharmaceutical, to Entertainment and Luxury and FMCG. She is passionate about media and even more passionate about driving brands’ business and nurturing teams.

Rachel sits on the SMG board helping to shape strategic agency direction and is Managing Director of P&G; United; a strategic alliance of P&G;’s agencies in UK&I;, sitting alongside Mediavest and Starcom.

As a regular contributor to panels at events or as an awards judge, Rachel is always keen to input into industry debates and offer her insight and time. She is a keen mentor and through her membership of WACL, she has the opportunity to support and encourage young talent coming through the industry. Rachel is also involved in initiatives such as ‘BacktoBusinessShip’, equipping and coaching returning advertising Mums.

Jonathan joined Spotify as one of the first employees in early 2007, originally tasked with striking partnerships to drive distribution and explore potential revenue streams. Working across the business as it scaled, he has held a variety of roles including European GM and Global Sales Director.

Prior to joining Spotify, Jonathan spent eight years in a series of management positions at NASDAQ listed digital marketing solutions provider ValueClick. His final role there was European Development Director.

Jonathan is fascinated by the ever-changing world of technology, the way this impacts consumer behavior and the response demanded of content companies and brands alike in order to stay relevant.

He lives with his wife and two children in a town called Sigtuna on the outskirts of Stockholm, enjoys both watching and playing sport as well as getting out on the water. He has been mildly panicked since he realised he will never be able to listen to all of the music on Spotify.

Paul is CEO of Havas Media UK and the external face of Havas Media Group UK, overseeing senior client relationships and new business across the group. His responsibilities include delivering excellent results for both clients and shareholders thought leadership, partner development and defining the future agency model.